Chapter 48: Reason and Sensibility
For the next few days, the crowd only attended one invitation to a certain store's show, and the rest of the time they spent running around the country for book signings.
Originally, the company was going to make the scene of their signing meeting into a variety show-type documentary, but due to a major event that shocked the whole country in July, the company finally gave up on this idea.
This touching event is the abduction of 23 South Koreans in Afghanistan. By early August, two people had already been killed by their kidnappers.
In dealing with this matter, South Korea set a precedent for a government and a terrorist organization to sit down at the negotiating table since the war on terror.
This is disgraced by many countries, but it is extremely satisfying to the domestic people.
Therefore, before this matter is satisfactorily resolved, all brokerage companies dare not risk the world's condemnation to do something new and interesting. Of course, determining what to do before the event doesn't count. But even so, many artists are still cautious, for fear that the public will think that artists only think about themselves and don't care about the safety of those compatriots.
In addition, there is another major event, which is the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, which has been brewing for a long time.
South Korea's economy is an export-oriented economy, and if there is an economic crisis, it will lead to the deterioration of the domestic economic environment, and most importantly, South Korea's primary industry cannot meet the needs of the people at all, and it needs to import a large number of agricultural products and derivative products from abroad every year.
And this impact will soon affect the entertainment industry that depends on the national economy. Which country the artist in the entertainment industry wants to go to develop most shows that which country has a strong economy is essentially fleeing from the country, of course, copyright factors also need to be considered.
Sunny had a vague understanding of this, which came from a little bit of thinking after her old company went bankrupt. And the others, well, except for Xiuying, didn't think about it at all.
Of course, Phoebe is an exception, what she really wants to do is to let Girls' Generation leave the bottom of this industry that actually relies on too many upstream industries to survive, at least, to reach the top position of this industry, and the position that makes people in the upstream dare not provoke them.
Ever since she had decided on the path to take, she had begun to pay attention to any news and news, and she had to find a force that she could take refuge in or use in the future.
After compiling the information she was able to gather, she found that since the SCO summit at the beginning of the year and the visit of Chinese leaders to South Korea in April, South Korea has behaved differently in the international arena.
Moreover, not only South Korea, but also Japanese political circles have made a big news -- the Liberal Democratic Party has suffered a crushing defeat in the election.
At the same time, even in the United States, on the other side of the Pacific, the House of Representatives passed a resolution that had been delayed for countless years, and the content of this resolution demanded that Japan apologize to the Asian people for some of its actions during World War II.
The large amount of complicated information may seem unrelated to the eyes of ordinary people, but after Fibi memorizes everything and analyzes it a little, she has a clear vein in her head.
Phoebe is extremely frightened of China. She decided that she would cooperate with China at most in the future, and would never go to China, even if she was half Chinese.
The main reason for this is actually because of her father's family, which was one of the Chinese families who fled before the return of Hong Kong Island in '97. Because there are so few online consultations, most of the records she can get about China are not accurate and objective. During the Red Guard period, China once led a huge trend among young people from all over the world, and she understood that China has a reckoning with these records.
And in China's Internet, Phoebe has never had a reliable record of ensuring that people like herself are not "liquidated".
In addition, Phoebe found in online discussions in China that Chinese people have no good feelings for those who have rejected China and abandoned Chinese traditions, which makes Phoebe dare not mention her father for a long time, for fear that it will affect the entire girlhood.
It's a bit far, that's all for later.
Getting back to business, except for the weekend when everyone has to go back to Seoul to participate in the three major music programs, the rest of the time is basically spent in the car, after all, they have just debuted at this time, and they have to hold signing parties all over the country to promote themselves.
As time passed, they took the bus around South Korea, and they also truly experienced what it means to be a newcomer to play songs - they don't even have the opportunity to go back to the dormitory to sleep.
Fortunately, with the help of Phoebe's massage and soothing incense, everyone's body was not crushed by such days. But we still miss the beds in the dormitory.
But when we got the results of the company's sales statistics, everyone was happy. Then a few diligent ones went to check the news on the Internet, and then were pleasantly surprised to find that they also began to have their own personal support stations, and many of the main photographers of the support stations also began to shoot them, so that they found a lot of interesting pictures that they didn't notice.
Due to a better debut publicity plan, Girls' Generation actually made a very smooth debut. You must know that South Korea, a country with a population of only 50 million, can cause an explosion of sales and MV on-demand just after its debut, which is very rare.
The company also told them that in 06 years, an average of two singers debuted every day, but after a year, there were already ten ** people who had to turn to behind-the-scenes work or simply leave the entertainment industry due to their bleak future. In other words, more than 600 singers in the entertainment industry were short-lived in the entertainment industry in 06 years alone, and then soon disappeared.
The meaning of the company is obvious, that is, to tell everyone that when Girls' Generation debuted, because of the fact that it belonged to a large brokerage company, it obtained opportunities and resources far beyond ordinary people.
In fact, this matter is not a secret, which also makes many unambitious artists a little resentful - in fact, the artists of major management companies are hostile to the artists of those small companies. This is also the reason why major brokerage companies often tacitly avoid each other's return when they are in fierce competition, and at the same time, when taking over commercials, variety shows or other programs, the relationship between artists from major economic companies is often closer than that between artists from small companies.
When moving in the car, everyone listens to music and watches movies in addition to resting, which is actually not leisure, but work tasks.
During the trainee period, everyone watched and listened to it based on their hobbies, but after entering the circle and becoming an artist, they couldn't be willful.
The assistant team found many of the seniors' movies, songs, and MVs for them to watch repeatedly, so that once they are on the same stage with these seniors in the program in the future, then they can interact with these seniors, which is another expression of respect for the seniors, that is, they know a lot about the works of the seniors, whether you like it or not.
For Phoebe, watching movies and TV series is not good, because she can't remember faces, and in the whole film, in addition to the general plot, she doesn't know what acting skills and expressions she has, and many times, the plot she understands is completely different from others.
The assistant team thinks it's nothing, after all, if Phoebe participates in the trip, the program team is likely to use face recognition obstacles to make a fuss, and in the show, the audience will generally know that Phoebe can't read the movie, so when dealing with the seniors in the film and television industry, the requirements for Phoebe will not be too high.
However, the music industry is different, Phoebe needs to listen to a lot more songs than others, but fortunately, she has an excellent memory, and she can remember and sing it once she listens to it, which is also very reassuring.
Seeing this, the economic team even felt that if Phoebe went to participate in "Challenge a Thousand Songs", it would ensure that the challenge would be successful.
In fact, if you really want to memorize these, Phoebe thinks that it is faster to memorize with song scores, after all, when listening to them, they are limited by the playback speed of the songs, and they still don't read the song scores directly.
But Phoebe also knows that although she can remember it at all, when she sings, the effect is completely different from that of her predecessors, and the biggest difference is that when she sings, people know that they have no emotion at all when they hear it.
Several trainee-turned-assistants in the team were surprised by this characteristic of Phoebe, they felt that it was enough to do Phoebe, and Zhu Ying also said to Phoebe: "It doesn't matter, if it's not our singing and dancing, just remember it exactly the same." ”
But Taeyeon didn't quite understand how to sing without emotion, and asked, "How can this be?"
"I don't know. Phoebe shook her head.
In addition, when Phoebe watched the MV and live video, people discovered her amazing talent, after watching the MV or live video, she can form a complete understanding of dance and movement in her mind, and can reproduce everyone's movement and dance moves on that video.
In the MV version, the performance component is very large, and it is filmed according to the requirements of the film crew, and the content of the live broadcast, the director generally decides which lens to choose because of the artist's performance at the time, and the shooting position of the lens is also different. Therefore, many people say that watching a performance live is completely different from watching a video afterwards.
That's why it's very difficult to get through the guò MV version or the live broadcast version to summarize the movement and dance, and the better the performance, the more difficult it is to see those things.
However, everyone also found that when Phoebe simulates the people who appear on the camera, the dance movements and expressions are very similar to the feeling in the MV, but if she simulates people outside the camera, it will be completely unfeeling, to be precise, but the dance moves are in place and the movement is very accurate, but it is also lacking in emotion.
"At first, I felt that it resonated with you in harmony, and when I took Yun'er's place, I performed very well. Now I understand that you're copying our performance, right? I'm showing you the harmony part. Jessica suddenly thought of something.
Everyone nodded, and they also remembered that on the day Phoebe returned to the team, she was also like this when she learned Xiaoyuan to dance.
Taeyeon wondered, "It's weird, Phoebe, why can't you put your own feelings into the show?
"Wronged. Sunny laughed for a moment, and then said, "When we were recording, dancing, and performing, didn't the teacher tell us how to perform and how to add our own feelings? Moreover, I actually didn't teach Phoebe anything at all, she taught me well. ”
Everyone looked at Phoebe, and Sunny said that she sang as a sample of the song, and everyone thought it was very similar.
Taeyeon frowned again and said, "That's weird." ”
"Okay, don't be embarrassed by Phoebe, she's good like this. Sunny smiled and patted Taeyeon on the arm.
"Oh, well. Taeyeon turned to look at Sunny and sighed again, "I just think Phoebe has a good voice, and if she can sing her own style, she can go very far on the road of singing." ”
Everyone nodded, but Phoebe didn't say anything.
"Okay, okay, don't we still have us to help when Phoebe can't figure it out, don't be embarrassed for her. Jessica interjected, she didn't think there was anything wrong with Phoebe, at least Phoebe was in place. In the stage performance of idols, whether the action is in place and whether it is good-looking is the key, as for whether they are emotionally invested during the performance, their songs themselves are emotionless, of course there may be, but the audience has no time to notice whether their performance has feelings, after all, there are so many people, the camera is quickly switched in a flash, what's the point of talking about feelings?
Taeyeon struggled for a moment before nodding her head and dwelling on this no more.
In fact, in the depths of Phoebe's mind, she knew that she didn't actually have any emotions, and she didn't need them.
Since her debut, some people have said that it seems that Phoebe is disgusted with strangers, but in fact it is not, Phoebe does not have a feeling of aversion to strangers, this is a state that is difficult to describe, and it is worth mentioning that her coldness is completely different from the coldness of iceberg princesses such as Jessica.
Only when it comes to Sunny does she have a little bit of emotional thinking beyond her rational thinking, but Phoebe feels that it doesn't belong to the category of emotional thinking at all, but rather the emotional thinking that she simulates with her rational thinking, which is no different from when she imitates other people's singing, dancing, and acting according to the director's requirements.